st: how to make the labels in the localname to be independent of each other?

[gjhxmu@sina.com]

Dear statalists,

I generate a localname to stand for the var labels of certain variables.
However, there are spaces in the labels of certain variables.
How to let stata treat each label as a  complete unit?

For example, 

clear
input x y
1 2
3 9
end
l
la var x "the first"
la var y "the second"
foreach i of varlist _all {
loc labels "`labels' `: var l `i''"
}
di "`labels'"
   the first the second
di "`: word count `labels''"
4

In fact my purpose is to generate a localname including two labels, and the word count
 of it is 2.

Could anyone help me ? Thank you.

Best regards,
Rose.
 

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